This is one final 2025 reminder of the sickness and hypocrisy plaguing American universities controlled by leftists for decades.
On December 12, the Washington Free Beacon exposed a perverse freshman orientation event to which Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts has given its blessing and money for eighteen years. At a cost of $93K for tuition, fees, room, and board—the “sixth most expensive college in the country” according to Business Insider—Amherst apparently has plenty of money to burn.
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All freshman orientation leaders were urged to urge their freshmen to attend the event which the school described as a “‘lighthearted tradition’ to ‘celebrate the humor, creativity, and individuality of your class.'”
The accuracy of that description depends on what the meaning of “lighthearted,” “humorous,” and “creative” are.
The event consists of upper classmen performing skits while reading out-of-context excerpts from admission applications for the ostensible purpose of introducing freshmen to Amherst’s student code of conduct.
As reported by the Free Beacon, “An entire section of the performance is dedicated just to sex,” which included simulating masturbation, oral sex, group sex, and drug use. Their performances, replete with simulated orgasmic sounds and facial expressions, were like something you would expect from middle school boys (no offense to middle school boys intended) and raise the question, Does Amherst have any criteria for determining appropriate student conduct?
Again, from the Free Beacon: “A young woman bent over while another student pretended to penetrate her from behind. Others pretended to do drugs and shared their “’high thoughts.’”
Defending Amherst’s “Year-round sexual programming,”
Amanda Vann, Amherst’s “director of health and wellbeing education,” told the Free Beacon that the skits help students build up their skills when it comes to sex. “The skits are part of our broader commitment to promoting wellbeing and sexual respect on campus,” she said. … By presenting these subjects in a relatable, engaging format, the skits help students build the skills and awareness needed to care for themselves, support one another, and contribute to a healthy, respectful community.”
Ah yes, the traditional task of colleges and universities: building sex skills. One wonders how babies were ever made before colleges and universities started teaching sex skills through chapel skits depicting oral sex and masturbation.
Amherst was founded in 1821 for the “education of indigent young men of piety and talents for the Christian ministry.” The puerile skits were performed in the historic Johnson Chapel, an insult to Adam Johnson who bequeathed a quarter of his lifetime savings to Amherst for the chapel that was to bear his name in perpetuity.
This might aptly be described as organizational drift, or, to borrow Diane Vaughan’s term, the “normalization of deviance”:
The gradual process through which unacceptable practice or standards become acceptable. As the deviant behavior is repeated without catastrophic results, it becomes the social norm for the organization.
Amherst’s drift is revealed in the staff composition of the Center for Religious & Spiritual Life that has “a Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and interfaith and humanist chaplain” but no Christian chaplain. That’s the kind of diversity and inclusion leftists worship.
If Amherst were to hire a Christian chaplain, it would likely be a heretic who identifies as a Christian, so maybe it’s better for the school to be authentically and openly non-Christian.
Presumably, this event, guilefully called Voices of Amherst, didn’t start out quite as creepily exhibitionist as it is now, thereby proving that culture does not inevitably evolve. In reality, where conservatives live, culture can devolve into paganism, Gnosticism, libertinism, and anarchy.
That drift into deviance has been made possible by leftists gaining control of our institutions of higher learning and transforming them into institutions of leftist propaganda, all the while claiming with their serpentine forked tongues that they are deeply committed to diversity, inclusion, and tolerance. They have claimed with the earnestness of Machiavelli that they deeply value critical thinking and “honoring all voices.”
Meanwhile, on December 1, the Buckley Institute published its 2025 Yale Faculty Diversity Report, which, given the results, could be a title for a Babylon Bee piece and should embarrass the heck out of Yale trustees, administrators, and faculty.
According to the Yale Faculty Diversity Report, there is no faculty diversity:
Across Yale’s 43 undergraduate departments and two of its graduate schools, the Buckley Institute’s research found that Democrats make up 82.3% of faculty while Republicans make up 2.3% and unaffiliated/third party faculty make up 15.4%. That is a more than 36 to 1 Democrat to Republican ratio and a 5 to 1 Democrat to independent ratio.
Here are the departments with zero registered Republican faculty members. Rien, nada, zip, big fat 0: American Studies; Anthropology; Architecture; Astronomy; Black Studies; Chemical and Environmental Engineering; Chemistry, Classics, Comparative Literature, Earth & Planetary Sciences, East Asian Languages & Literature, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Electrical and Computer Engineering; English; Environment; French; Germanic Languages & Literature; Global Affairs; History of Art; Italian Studies; Linguistics; Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry; Music; Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations; Neuroscience; Psychology; Slavic Languages & Literature; and Sociology.
Leftists take Americans for such fools that they expect us to believe that having zero Republican faculty in twenty-eight departments is purely accidental.
I wonder what happened to all that concern about “disparate impact”? Seems like conservative scholars may be disparately impacted by the institutional bias of leftist academicians.
But it’s yet even more comical, and by “comical,” I mean worse.
On Dec. 5, the Buckley Institute published its report on The State of Political Diversity in the Yale Admissions Office that reveals,
Across the 26 employees in the Yale College Undergraduate Admissions Office who are most likely to impact admissions decisions (excluding administrative staff), 69% are registered Democrats while 31% are unaffiliated. There are zero registered Republicans. Among the office’s senior leadership—the dean and the five directors who report to him—83%, or five out of six, are registered Democrats while only 17% are registered as unaffiliated. Again, there were no registered Republicans.
Not to worry, Yalie-wannabes. I’m sure none of these admissions office Dems let their political views shape admissions decisions.
Yale and Amherst are far from alone in promoting moral vacuity and diversity fakery. The longer parents and alumni subsidize schools like these, the longer these schools will be able to corrupt American culture.